We are honoured to announce that we will launch artist Wang Hao’s first solo exhibition Exile and the Kingdomon 17th December.

This exhibition will show the audience the artist’s practices under the absurd philosophical thinking in recent years. The artist assigns different roles and status symbols to the characters, animals, and even still-lives in the picture, and uses them to write the plot stories and spiritual world behind the characters, allowing the viewers to immerse themselves in the theatre of the absurd.

Exile and the Kingdom originated from a novel containing 6 stories about “exile” by Albert Camus, a representative of absurdism. From a woman doing business in a foreign land, a deranged apostate, a worker who failed a strike, an artist abandoned by fame and fortune, and an engineer exiled to a foreign country, each character is appropriately revealing the moral of the story. Just like the intricate relationship between characters and characters in Wang Hao’s works. The so-called “kingdom” may refer to the beautiful results on the opposite shore, and Wang Hao is more describing the process of reaching the shore and going to the other worlds, as well as the uncertainty in it. By constructing a “theatre of the absurd”, he searches for the meaning of individual existence, explores the inner connection between reality and illusion, and ponders the intertwined human nature and destiny.